Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021414
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 00:49 RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA IN THE 00:52 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WELCOME, AND WE ARE SO THRILLED 00:56 THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY TOGETHER GOD'S WORD. 00:59 WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS THAT WE CAN GATHER FROM ALL OVER THE 01:02 PLANET AND STUDY GOD'S WORD AND LOOK FORWARD TOGETHER 01:07 TO HIS SOON RETURN, AMEN? 01:09 AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE 01:12 HYMNAL AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN ON TWO YEARS ALREADY AND WE'RE ONLY 01:15 ON 95, SO WE WILL EVENTUALLY MAKE IT THROUGH. 01:20 HYMN #95 THIS MORNING - 'SPRING HAS NOW UNWRAPPED THE FLOWERS' - 01:25 AND YOU ARE GOING TO RECOGNIZE THE TUNE TO THIS SONG. 01:29 A LOT OF THESE WE FIND COME FROM A BOOK OF CAROLS SO THEY'RE 01:32 CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND I'M NOT SURE WHICH CAME FIRST, THE 01:35 CHRISTMAS CAROL OR THE WORDS TO THIS. 01:39 SO WE'RE GOING TO SING #95 - 'SPRING HAS NOW UNWRAPPED THE 01:42 FLOWERS'. IT COMES AS A REQUEST FROM KAREN 01:44 IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AND THIS IS OUR FIRST REQUEST FROM THE 01:47 FALKLAND ISLANDS SO WELCOME - AND 01:50 ALSO FROM JOYCE IN KENYA - #95 - WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. 01:55 (MUSIC) 03:58 >>YOU KNOW, YESTERDAY I WAS DRIVING TO WORK AND IT IS 04:01 SPRINGTIME AND I WAS DRIVING OUT TO THE MARYSVILLE AREA AND 04:05 CUTTING THROUGH SOME OF THE BACK ROADS - IT WAS GREEN AND 04:07 BEAUTIFUL AND THE TREES WERE IN BLOOM AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT 04:11 JUST BE THRILLED WITH SPRING AND THE WORDS IN THIS SONG: 'ARTIST 04:15 WITHOUT RIVAL' - HOW TRUE THAT IS - AND HIS ARTISTRY IS WRITTEN 04:20 EVERY SINGLE DAY FROM SUNRISE TO SUNDOWN IF YOU AND I ARE LOOKING 04:24 FOR IT, AMEN? AMEN. LET'S PRAY. 04:27 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING SUCH AN 04:30 AWESOME CREATOR - FROM THE SUNRISE TO THE SUNSET AND 04:35 EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, LORD, WE ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AS WHO YOU ARE 04:39 AND OUR HEARTS ARE HUMBLED THIS MORNING JUST BECAUSE WE KNOW 04:43 THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE THE CREATOR, YOU ALSO GAVE UP YOUR 04:46 SON TO DIE FOR US THAT WE COULD BE RESTORED TO YOU AND THAT IS 04:51 THE MOST AMAZING - AMAZING REGENERATION AND BIRTH IS WHAT 04:56 TAKES PLACE IN OUR HEARTS EVERY DAY. 04:58 SO WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR YOUR WORD THAT WE CAN STUDY TOGETHER 05:02 AND WE CAN BECOME BETTER PEOPLE BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE. 05:06 SO FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT. PLEASE FILL PASTOR DOUG AND 05:09 LORD, JUST LET HIS WORDS BE YOUR WORDS AND HELP US EACH 05:12 INDIVIDUALLY IN OUR SPHERES OF INFLUENCE, TO SHOW OTHERS HOW 05:17 WONDERFUL YOU ARE AND THAT WE CAN HASTEN YOUR COMING, LORD. 05:20 WE JUST SO LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY TO MEET YOU FACE TO FACE AND 05:24 KNOW YOUR WORDS AND YOUR PROMISES ARE TRUE AND WE CLAIM 05:28 THOSE THIS MORNING. I PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR 05:30 PRECIOUS NAME, JESUS, AMEN. OUR STUDY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US 05:35 BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 05:45 >>THANK YOU, JOLYNE AND OUR MUSICIANS. 05:48 GOOD MORNING FRIENDS. HAPPY SABBATH. 05:52 I'D NEVER SUNG THAT SONG BEFORE, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY APPROPRIATE. 05:56 SPRING IS SPRUNG. WE'VE JUST HAD SOME BEAUTIFUL 06:00 GLORIOUS DAYS HERE IN SACRAMENTO. 06:03 THE MYSTERY IS WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WINTER? 06:07 WE HAD SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WEATHER FROM DECEMBER 06:12 THROUGH FEBRUARY AND IT WAS A LITTLE COOL, BUT WE NEVER REALLY 06:15 HAD A WINTER HERE. OF COURSE, THAT'S WHY WE'RE 06:17 HAVING A DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA, BUT IT'S PRETTY NOW. 06:20 AND WE'RE ENJOYING IT. HAPPY SABBATH. 06:23 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU ARE STUDYING WITH US THIS MORNING. 06:25 I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE STUDYING VIA THE INTERNET OR 06:30 SATELLITE OR SOME OTHER BROADCAST MECHANISM. 06:34 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'VE JOINED US AND THOSE WHO ARE EXTENDED 06:36 MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL STUDY GROUP - WE ARE ENTERING, TODAY, 06:42 INTO STUDYING A NEW LESSON DEALING WITH CHRIST AND HIS LAW 06:46 AND I'LL SAY A WORD MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT BUT, AS 06:49 ALWAYS, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT'S PERFECT FOR TODAY. 06:52 IT'S ONE OF THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDES THAT DEALS 06:55 SPECIFICALLY WITH THE LAW OF GOD AND IT'S CALLED 06:57 'WRITTEN IN STONE' AND IF YOU'D LIKE THIS IT 07:00 HAS A GREAT OVERVIEW OF THE LAW OF GOD. 07:03 ASK FOR OFFER #111 - IT'S FREE WHEN YOU CALL. 07:06 THAT NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S THE ACRONYM FOR 07:11 866-788-3966 AND WHEN YOU CALL WE JUST ASK THAT YOU LOOK IT 07:17 OVER, READ IT, AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. ASK FOR 07:19 OFFER #111 AND IT'S, AGAIN, CALLED 'WRITTEN IN STONE'. 07:25 WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW SERIES DEALING WITH CHRIST AND HIS LAW 07:30 AND I THINK THAT THAT IS SUCH A VERY IMPORTANT PERTINENT 07:33 SUBJECT FOR US TO STUDY RIGHT NOW. 07:35 YOU HEAR ASTONISHINGLY LITTLE ABOUT THE LAW OF GOD IN 07:43 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TODAY. WHAT ARE THE OPERATIVE WORDS 07:47 THAT WE HEAR COMING FROM MOST PULPITS TODAY? 07:52 GRACE, LOVE, FAITH - YOU HEAR VERY LITTLE ABOUT LAW. 08:02 BUT IF THERE WAS NO LAW WE WOULD NOT NEED JESUS. 08:06 THE REASON THAT WE NEED CHRIST IS BECAUSE THERE IS SIN AND SIN 08:11 IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW AND EVEN AFTER WE ARE SAVED 08:15 FROM OUR SINS, WE STILL NEED THE LAW OF GOD. 08:20 IT SAID, EARLIER IN THE LESSON, I WAS READING THE INTRODUCTION 08:22 AGAIN THIS MORNING, THAT IF THERE WAS NO GOD AND IF THERE 08:26 WAS NO LIFE, IT WOULD NOT BE AS THOUGH THE UNIVERSE WAS IMMORAL 08:31 BECAUSE IN ORDER FOR SOMETHING TO BE IMMORAL, IT NEEDS TO BE 08:34 CONFLICTING WITH OR CONTRADICTING SOME LAW. 08:37 THE WORLD WOULD BE AMORAL - MEANING THERE IS NO LAW AND 08:40 THERE IS NO NEED FOR LAW. YOU CAN'T BREAK THE LAW - 08:42 THERE'S NOBODY TO BREAK IT. NOTHING GOVERNS ANYTHING, YOU'VE 08:45 JUST GOT, MAYBE, EMPTY SPACE OR SOME LIFELESS ROCKS FLOATING 08:50 AROUND OUT THERE. THERE'S NO NEED FOR LAW AT THAT 08:52 POINT. YOU CAN'T BREAK A LAW. 08:54 WHERE THERE IS NO LAW, THERE IS NO SIN. 08:56 BUT WHERE THERE'S LIFE AND THERE'S INTELLIGENCE AND THERE'S 08:59 CHOICES, AND THERE'S RIGHT AND THERE'S WRONG, THEN LAW NEEDS TO 09:03 BE THERE AND PENALTY FOR BREAKING THE LAW. 09:07 THINK ABOUT THE CHAOS THAT WE HAVE WHEN THE POWER GRID GOES 09:12 DOWN AND WHAT IT DOES TO TRAFFIC WITHOUT LAWS TO GOVERN. 09:17 I REMEMBER LISTENING TO A TALK BY ZIG ZIGLAR, WHO WAS, 09:20 OF COURSE, A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER. 09:22 HE WAS VERY POSITIVE AND HE SAID, 'WE ALWAYS THINK OF 09:25 TRAFFIC LIGHTS - WE CALL THEM STOP LIGHTS' - HE SAID - 'BUT 09:28 THEY'RE NOT REALLY JUST STOP LIGHTS' - HE SAID - 'THERE'S 09:30 THREE COLORS THERE AND ONE OF THEM IS GREEN.' - HE SAID - 'WHY 09:32 DON'T WE CALL THEM 'GO LIGHTS'?' - HE SAID - 'IF YOU DON'T THINK 09:35 THEY'RE GO LIGHTS, WAIT UNTIL ALL OF THEM STOP WORKING AND YOU 09:39 REALIZE THAT WHEN THEY DON'T WORK THEY'RE STOP LIGHTS. 09:42 WHEN THEY WORK, THEY'RE GO LIGHTS.' 09:45 THEY HELP EVERYTHING KEEP ON GOING. 09:48 AND SO, WE THINK ABOUT LAW THAT WAY IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 09:51 WE THINK THE LAW IS STOPPING OUR FREEDOM OR IT'S RESTRICTING US. 09:56 BUT, ACTUALLY, LAW IS WHAT GIVES US FREEDOM. 09:59 THE BIBLE CALLS IT THE LAWS OF LIBERTY. 10:03 YOU FIND THAT NOT ONLY IN PSALM 119 - I THINK VERSE 45 - YOU 10:06 FIND THAT MENTIONED TWICE IN THE BOOK OF JAMES. 10:09 IT TALKS ABOUT THE LAW OF LIBERTY AND, BECAUSE IN THIS 10:12 WORLD THAT'S BEEN KIDNAPPED BY THE DEVIL AND HIS FORCES, HIS - 10:20 WITHOUT LAW WE ARE ENSLAVED. 10:23 IT'S THE LAW THAT REALLY GIVES US FREEDOM. 10:25 PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE LAW AND THEY SAY, 'OH, YOU KNOW, THE LAW 10:29 IS REALLY PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL.' AND WE THINK ABOUT THE 10:33 LAW - OH, THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW - IT GOT AHOLD OF THEM, 10:37 PUT THEM IN CHAINS AND HANDCUFFS. 10:39 BUT REALLY, IT'S THE LAW THAT KEEPS YOU FREE, YOU SEE, BECAUSE 10:44 WHAT IF THERE WERE NO LAWS AND THERE WERE NO JAILS? 10:47 WOULD YOU FEEL SAFE GOING OUT ON THE STREET? 10:50 AND SO IT'S THE LAW, YES, THAT DOES LOCK SOME PEOPLE UP 10:54 - THAT KEEPS THE REST OF US FREE. 10:57 AND SO, I COULD GO DOWN THAT ROAD AND TALK ABOUT A LOT OF 11:00 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF IT - AND SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT 11:03 THAT WE TALK ABOUT THE LAW. 11:04 PEOPLE OFTEN THINK, ALSO - THEY THINK THAT JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY 11:07 WITH THE LAW AND THEY SEE CHRIST AND THE LAW AS POLAR OPPOSITES 11:12 AND THEY FORGET THAT JESUS, ACTUALLY - BECAUSE ALL THINGS 11:15 THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE BY HIM AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE 11:19 THAT WAS MADE. WHO IS IT THAT REALLY DELIVERS THE LAW? 11:24 IT'S THE LAW OF CHRIST. PEOPLE THINK THAT THE LAW OF GOD 11:27 AND THE LAW OF CHRIST ARE TWO DIFFERENT LAWS. 11:30 OR THEY THINK THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE LAW OF JESUS ARE TWO 11:33 DIFFERENT LAWS. DID MOSES DREAM UP THE 11:37 CEREMONIAL LAW ON HIS OWN OR WAS IT GIVEN TO HIM BY GOD? 11:43 WHICH GOD - FATHER OR THE SON? SO THE CEREMONIAL LAW REALLY 11:48 CAME FROM CHRIST. THE MORAL LAW OF THE TEN 11:51 COMMANDMENTS CAME FROM CHRIST. THE LAW OF GOD IS CHRIST'S LAW. 11:56 NOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT OTHER LAWS IN THE BIBLE - 11:59 THERE ARE MAN-MADE LAWS, THERE ARE TRADITIONS, THERE ARE CIVIL 12:02 LAWS, THERE ARE GOVERNMENT LAWS - THE BIBLE IS TALKING ABOUT THE 12:04 HEALTH LAWS - AND SO THERE'S ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF SPECTRUMS OF 12:08 LAW. YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO - I REALLY TRIED - YOU CAN TRY AND 12:12 YOU LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU FIND OUT, BUT I WENT AND I TRIED TO 12:19 FIND OUT, IN AMERICA, HOW MANY LAWS WE ACTUALLY HAVE. 12:25 DID YOU KNOW - AND I THINK THIS WAS JUST IN 2010 - IN 2010, 12:32 40,000 NEW LAWS WERE ADDED TO THE AMERICAN CODE. 12:38 THOSE ARE STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS AND ALL DIFFERENT - THERE'S ALL 12:41 DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAWS - 40,000 LAWS. 12:47 IT'S AMAZING THAT GOD WAS ABLE TO SUM UP HIS WILL IN TEN - DO 12:51 YOU KNOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE ACTUALLY, IN HEBREW, IT 12:52 CALLS IT THE 'TEN WORDS'? BUT THOSE - IN THOSE TEN SIMPLE 12:57 STATEMENTS GOD WAS ABLE - THAT'S A MIRACLE BY ITSELF. 13:01 SO I TRIED TO FIND OUT HOW MANY LAWS DO WE HAVE 13:03 IN THE UNITED STATES. 13:06 AND I SEARCHED - YOU KNOW, YOU THINK YOU'D FIND THE ANSWER TO 13:07 EVERYTHING ON GOOGLE OR 'ASK.COM' AND I LOOKED AND I 13:10 LOOKED AND YOU KNOW WHAT I CAME UP WITH? 13:14 HEAD LIBRARIAN OF THE LAW LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - YOU'VE 13:17 HEARD OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS? 13:18 WELL, THERE'S A SPECIALIST WHO DEALS WITH THE LAWS BECAUSE 13:21 THERE ARE SO MANY LAWS AND THERE IS "AT THE REFERENCE DESK WE ARE 13:27 FREQUENTLY ASKED TO ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF FEDERAL LAWS IN FORCE; 13:31 HOWEVER, TRYING TO TALLY THIS NUMBER IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE." 13:37 YOU JUST LOOK AT ALL THE LAW BOOKS THAT THEY'VE GOT. 13:39 NOW, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LAWS? HAVE YOU EVER READ ABOUT 13:46 SOME OF THE GOOFY LAWS THAT DIFFERENT STATES HAVE? 13:50 I FORGET WHAT STATE IT IS THAT SAYS, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT 13:54 A SKUNK IN YOUR BOSS' DESK - THERE'S ACTUALLY A LAW 13:59 SOMEWHERE. WHY DO YOU THINK THERE IS SUCH A 14:03 LAW? WHAT WAS THE STORY BEHIND THAT? 14:07 ISN'T THERE, INHERENT IN THAT LAW, AN UNDERSTANDING THAT 14:10 SOMEWHERE, SOME EMPLOYEE BECAME EXASPERATED WITH HIS BOSS AND 14:14 PUT A - PRESUMABLY A LIVE SKUNK IN HIS DESK? 14:17 I DON'T KNOW, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DEAD ONE, BUT - AND SO SOMEONE 14:20 HAD TO MAKE A LAW THAT YOU CAN'T DO THAT. ANOTHER STATE HAS A LAW 14:23 THAT YOU CAN'T CARRY AN ICE CREAM CONE IN YOUR POCKET. 14:29 NOW I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT SOMEONE - MAYBE KIDS WERE DOING THAT AND 14:33 THEN THEY WERE SITTING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY AND STAINING THINGS? 14:36 I DON'T KNOW, BUT THERE'S SOME STORY BEHIND IT. 14:38 BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY A LAW. SOME OF THE LAWS ARE JUST REALLY 14:42 DUMB, BUT THE MORE LAWLESS A PEOPLE BECOMES, THE MORE LAWS 14:49 THEY WILL NEED TO GOVERN AND CONTROL THEIR BEHAVIOR. 14:54 AND EVERY YEAR OUR LEGISLATURES - AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE 14:58 THAT WORK UNDERNEATH THE SENATE AND THE CONGRESS THAT ARE 15:03 CONSTANTLY CRAFTING AND DRAFTING AND REFINING DIFFERENT LAWS AND 15:08 CORPORATIONS ARE ALSO WORKING WITH LOBBYISTS TO HAVE DIFFERENT 15:12 LAWS PUT THROUGH THAT WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR THEIR 15:14 COMPETITORS AND JUST ALL OF THESE SINFUL TENDENCIES GET TO 15:19 WHERE THE LAWS MUSHROOM AND EXPLODE SO THAT EVEN THE BEST 15:23 LAWYERS DON'T KNOW HOW MANY LAWS THERE ARE. 15:26 THEY'VE GOT TO HAVE LIBRARIES FULL OF LAW BOOKS AND DATA BASES 15:29 SO THAT THEY CAN RESEARCH HOW TO DEFEND AND FIGHT THINGS BASED ON 15:34 DIFFERENT CASES AND THE COURTS ARE BACKED UP BECAUSE 15:37 EVERYBODY'S SUING EVERYBODY AND THERE'S SO MANY LAWS. 15:41 GOD WAS ABLE TO SUMMARIZE HIS LAW IN JUST A FEW SIMPLE TERMS. 15:45 YOU KNOW THAT THE WHOLE LAW OF GOD IS SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD - 15:50 WHAT IS THAT ONE WORD? LOVE. 15:52 IF EVERYBODY REALLY LOVED GOD - FIRST - THEN WE WOULD LOVE OUR 15:58 NEIGHBOR AND IF WE REALLY LOVED GOD, WE'D REALLY LOVE OUR 16:01 NEIGHBOR, YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT ALL - WOULD YOU PUT 16:04 A SKUNK IN YOUR BOSS' DESK IF YOU LOVED YOUR NEIGHBOR? 16:08 YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT LAWS. 16:10 IF WE REALLY LOVED EACH OTHER WE WOULDN'T NEED ALL OF THAT. 16:14 BUT IT'S BECAUSE INIQUITY ABOUNDS AND THE LOVE OF MANY 16:19 GROWS COLD. I LOOKED UP A DEFINITION. 16:22 LAW IS THE SYSTEM OF RULES THAT A PARTICULAR COUNTRY OR 16:26 COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES AS REGULATING THE ACTIONS OF ITS 16:29 MEMBERS AND IT MAY ENFORCE BY THE IMPOSITION OF PENALTIES. 16:35 IN GREEK THE WORD IS NOMOS. IN LATIN, LEX. 16:41 IN HEBREW, TORAH - WE'VE ALL HEARD OF THE TORAH. 16:44 ALL THOSE WORDS MEAN LAW - AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAWS - THERE 16:50 ARE TRAFFIC LAWS, TAX LAW, CONSTRUCTION LAW, THERE'S 16:54 AVIATION LAW, THERE'S MARITIME LAW. 16:58 THEY'VE GOT LAWS REGARDING DRUGS, LAWS REGARDING EDUCATION, 17:01 LAWS REGARDING IMMIGRATION, CONTRACT LAW, PROPERTY LAW - 17:05 THAT'S JUST TO NAME A FEW. THEY'VE ACTUALLY GOT A DIVISION 17:10 THAT ENFORCES SOME OF THESE LAWS CALLED THE ATF - DO YOU KNOW 17:12 WHAT ATF STANDS FOR? THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, 17:17 FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES. NOW IS IT JUST ME? 17:21 BUT SHOULD ALCOHOL AND FIREARMS BE USED IN THE SAME SENTENCE? 17:25 AND WHAT DO YOU THINK? TOBACCO AND EXPLOSIVES - DOES 17:27 THAT BELONG TOGETHER? WE'VE GOT A BUREAU FOR ALMOST 17:34 EVERYTHING IN THE U.S. TO COVER ALL THE LAWS. 17:39 SO WE'RE SURROUNDED - WE'RE SWIMMING IN LEGISLATION AND LAWS 17:44 TO GOVERN BEHAVIOR BECAUSE IF WE CANNOT BE SELF-GOVERNED BY LOVE 17:50 AND COMMON SENSE THEN IT ALL NEEDS TO BE CODIFIED AND ALL 17:54 THESE RESTRICTIONS NEED TO BE WRITTEN. 17:57 SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE FIRST SECTION IN OUR LESSON 17:59 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF ROMAN LAW. 18:01 NOW CHRIST TAUGHT AND LIVED DURING THE TIME OF ROME AND 18:07 SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME ACTS 18 - WE GAVE OUT SOME SLIPS AND I 18:11 DON'T KNOW WHO HAS THIS ONE - ACTS 18:15 - OH YOU'VE GOT YOUR 18:15 HAND UP MIKE? ALRIGHT, RIGHT HERE. 18:16 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE AND IN A FEW MOMENTS WE'LL HAVE ACTS 18:20 23:29 - WHERE IS THAT VERSE? 18:23 JUST WONDERING - OH, GOT A MICROPHONE OVER HERE SOMEWHERE? 18:26 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO HE CAN SEE IT. 18:27 OKAY, YOU'LL BE SECOND BUT I'LL - AS YOU ALL KNOW, I'LL TALK A 18:31 LITTLE BIT - I JUST WANT TO GET QUEUED UP HERE. ALRIGHT, 18:34 JESUS WAS BORN DURING THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR - OCTAVIUS 18:42 CAESAR - HE WAS KNOWN AS AUGUSTUS CAESAR AND HE ACTUALLY 18:46 LIVED - HE LIVED LONGER BUT HE RULED FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS AND 18:51 DURING HIS TIME HE FOLLOWED, OF COURSE, JULIUS CAESAR - DURING 18:55 HIS TIME THEY HAD WHAT THEY CALLED THE 'PAX ROMANA' OR 19:02 THE ROMAN PEACE. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IN SPITE OF 19:05 THE CRUELTY WE THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF 19:08 JESUS, COMPARED TO THE WARS THAT HAD BEEN RAGING AMONG THE 19:12 TERRITORIES THAT ROME OCCUPIED, THERE HAD BEEN A LOT OF WAR. 19:16 DURING THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS THERE WAS COMPARATIVE PEACE. 19:21 ROME HAD A VERY CAREFULLY WRITTEN SYSTEM OF LAWS - AND I 19:26 KNOW WE WOULD THINK SOME OF THEM WERE BARBARIC - BUT THEY WERE 19:29 ABLE TO ENSURE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PEACE. 19:31 YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU DISOBEYED CERTAIN ROMAN LAWS - 19:36 IF YOU WERE NOT A ROMAN CITIZEN, YOU COULD BE CRUCIFIED AND YOU 19:38 WERE CRUCIFIED WITH YOUR OFFENSE NAILED ABOVE YOUR HEAD AND ON A 19:41 PUBLIC ROAD FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. AND IF YOU WALKED OUT OF YOUR 19:46 CITY GATES AND YOU SAW SOMEONE BEING - DYING FROM CRUCIFIXION 19:50 BECAUSE THEY HAD BROKEN SOME ROMAN LAW, YOU'D BE REALLY 19:54 CAREFUL ABOUT KEEPING THE LAW. YOU KNOW WHAT ONE OF THE 19:59 CLEANEST CITIES IN THE WORLD IS? SINGAPORE. YOU KNOW WHAT CITY 20:04 IN THE WORLD HAS THE STRICTEST SANITATION LAWS? SINGAPORE. 20:10 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN AN AMERICAN WAS BEATEN WITH RODS 20:16 FOR SPRAYING GRAFFITI SOMEWHERE IN SINGAPORE? 20:21 YOU REMEMBER THAT HAPPENED SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND AMERICA 20:23 TRIED TO GET IN AND MAKE IT STOP AND SINGAPORE SAID, 20:26 'LOOK, HE WAS HERE, HE BROKE OUR LAW. 20:28 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CLAMOR AND HOW MUCH YOU PROTEST, 20:31 HE WAS IN OUR COUNTRY, HE BROKE OUR LAWS.' AND THEY WHIPPED HIM 20:35 WITH A BAMBOO POLE THREE TIMES, I THINK. 20:36 THAT REALLY - IT LEAVES A WELT ON YOU AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS 20:39 BARBARIC BUT THEY'VE GOT THE CLEANEST COUNTRY. 20:43 THEY'VE GOT LAWS ABOUT CHEWING GUM SPITTING ON THE STREET AND 20:45 THEY ENFORCE THEM. SO, IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A 20:48 COUNTRY THAT HAS PEACE, YOU CAN ALSO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE 20:54 CRIMINALS ARE IMMEDIATELY AND SWIFTLY PUNISHED. 20:58 IF YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY - YOU KNOW WHAT COUNTRY HAS SOME 21:01 OF THE HIGHEST MURDER STATISTICS? 21:03 >>THE UNITED STATES. >>THAT'S RIGHT. 21:05 AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU SPEND THE LONGEST ON DEATH ROW 21:09 OF ANY COUNTRY? YOU CAN BE CONDEMNED AND 21:13 SENTENCED TO EXECUTION FOR MURDER AND SPEND 20 YEARS 21:18 APPEALING IT. YOU CAN DIE OF OLD AGE ON DEATH ROW IN THE U.S. 21:24 YOU CAN ACTUALLY, IN THE U.S., SUE TO HAVE A HEART TRANSPLANT 21:29 BECAUSE YOUR HEART ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO HANDLE EXECUTION. 21:36 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE? 21:38 IN AMERICA - ONLY IN AMERICA. 21:41 AND SO WE WONDER WHY THERE'S SO MUCH LAWLESSNESS WHEN THE LAWS 21:47 SEEM TO BE SKEWED TO PROTECT AND CARE FOR THE CRIMINALS AND NOT 21:52 WATCH OUT FOR THE VICTIMS. SO THERE'S A NEED FOR LAW AND, 21:56 YOU KNOW, WHEN THE LAW IS ABUSED OR WHEN IT'S NOT ENFORCED - BUT 22:01 DURING THE TIME OF ROME, YES, THEY WERE VERY STRICT, BUT THERE 22:03 WAS WHAT THEY CALL THE 'PAX ROMANA'. 22:05 THERE WAS A GREAT PEACE - COMPARATIVE PEACE - IN THE 22:08 COUNTRY DURING THAT TIME AND THEY SWIFTLY DEALT WITH THE 22:13 REBELLION WHEN 900 JEWS REBELLED AT MASADA. 22:20 OH, I THINK THAT WAS - I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS IMMEDIATELY 22:22 BEFORE OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, BUT 22:25 IT WAS A THREE-YEAR PERIOD OF TIME THAT THE JEWS TOOK THIS 22:28 FORTRESS THAT HEROD THE GREAT HAD BUILT UP ON A MESA - I'VE 22:31 BEEN THERE - AND THEY HELD OFF THE ROMAN ARMY - AND THE ROMAN 22:34 ARMY COULD HAVE SAID, 'LOOK, THERE'S 900 JEWS - WE'VE GOT 22:36 WARS TO FIGHT.' BUT THE ROMAN ARMY SAID, 'WE ARE NOT GOING TO 22:38 TOLERATE ANY REBELLION WITHIN OUR TERRITORY AND THEY SENT A 22:41 WHOLE ROMAN ARMY THAT BUILT A ROAD OUT OF DIRT THAT REACHED 22:47 FROM THE BASE OF THE LOWEST PLACE ON EARTH THERE BY THE DEAD 22:50 SEA, UP TO THE TOP OF THIS MESA SO THAT THEY COULD CONQUER - 22:54 WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT THERE THE JEWS ALL COMMITTED SUICIDE. 22:57 SO THEY SPENT THREE YEARS BUILDING A ROAD BASICALLY FOR 22:59 NOTHING, BUT THE ROMANS SAID, 'LOOK, WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO 23:01 NOTHING WHILE THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF REBELLION IN OUR 23:04 KINGDOM. THEY WERE EXTREMELY STRICT THAT WAY. 23:07 BUT IF YOU OBEYED THE LAWS, THEY TOOK CARE OF YOU AND THEY 23:11 PROTECTED THEIR OWN. ALRIGHT, SO - LET ME READ 23:13 LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, "AND IT CAME TO PASS 23:17 IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT 23:22 ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED." 23:25 - THERE WAS A CENSUS - "THIS CENSUS FIRST TOOK PLACE 23:28 WHILE QUIRINIUS WAS GOVERNING SYRIA. 23:30 SO ALL WENT TO BE REGISTERED, EVERYONE TO HIS OWN CITY. 23:34 JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE, OUT OF THE CITY OF 23:36 NAZARETH, INTO JUDEA, TO THE CITY OF DAVID, WHICH IS CALLED 23:39 BETHLEHEM, BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE HOUSE AND LINEAGE OF DAVID, TO 23:43 BE REGISTERED WITH MARY, HIS BETROTHED WIFE, 23:45 WHO WAS WITH CHILD." NOW, WHEN THE EMPEROR SAID 23:48 EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO TO YOUR HOME TOWN AND BE REGISTERED, 23:51 THAT MEANT EVERYBODY. DID IT MEAN RICH OR POOR? 23:55 YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT GET A SUMMONS TO JURY DUTY - 23:57 YOU EVER GET THAT? 23:59 I, TYPICALLY, HAVE TO APPLY AND SAY I NEED TO ASK FOR 24:03 FORGIVENESS FOR THAT BECAUSE IT IS VERY HARD, IF YOU'RE A SENIOR 24:08 PASTOR, AND THERE'S PEOPLE YOU MINISTER - MARRIAGES AND 24:11 FUNERALS - AND YOU SAY, 'I CAN'T, I'M ON JURY DUTY.' OR 24:14 HOSPITAL VISITS - AND SO, TYPICALLY, YOU'RE ABLE TO GET 24:18 OFF THAT. BUT IN ROME, WHEN YOU SAID, 24:20 'LOOK, I DON'T HAVE TIME. I CAN'T DO THIS. 24:22 I CAN'T' - THEY SAID, 'EVERYBODY HAD TO' - 'PREGNANT, I CAN'T GO. 24:26 I'M NINE MONTHS PREGNANT.' 'EVERYBODY.' AND SO THE ROMAN 24:30 LAWS WERE PRETTY SERIOUS. YOU HAD TO FOLLOW THEM. 24:34 FOR THE MOST PART, ROME ALLOWED VASSAL KINGDOMS TO MAINTAIN 24:38 THEIR OWN CUSTOMS, BUT ALL SUBJECTS WERE EXPECTED TO OBEY 24:42 THE IMPERIAL AND SENATORIAL LAWS. 24:44 OBVIOUSLY, THIS INCLUDED JOSEPH AND MARY. 24:46 SO ROME WOULD OFTEN FARM OUT DIFFERENT FIEFDOMS - 24:52 GOVERNORSHIPS - AND THEY CALLED THEM KINGS, LIKE HEROD WAS A 24:56 KING UNDER ROME. KINGS HAD KINGS UNDER THEM. 25:00 YOU REMEMBER READING IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL IT TALKS ABOUT THAT - 25:07 DANIEL CHAPTER 6 - THAT DANIEL WAS THREE - HE WAS ONE OF THE 25:11 TOP THREE OF THE MANY DIFFERENT GOVERNORS THAT WERE UNDER DARIUS 25:15 THE KING OF PERSIA. AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD OTHERS 25:19 THAT - BABYLON HAD OTHER KINGS THAT SAT AT HIS TABLE. 25:22 FINALLY HE LET JEHOICHIM OUT OF PRISON - 25:24 HE COULD SIT AT HIS TABLE WITH THE OTHER KINGS THAT 25:26 SAT AT NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S TABLE AND EVIL MERODACH'S TABLE. 25:29 THEN YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER ABOUT KING AHASUERUS AND 25:32 THERE WAS 127 PROVINCES AND ALL THESE OTHER KINGS. 25:36 THAT'S WHY WHEN IT CALLS JESUS THE KING OF KINGS IT MEANS THERE 25:40 ARE NO OTHER KINGS ABOVE HIM. HE IS THE ULTIMATE KING. 25:44 AND SO THE EMPEROR OF ROME, HE WAS THE KING OF KINGS BACK THEN. 25:50 AND SO THEY HAD DIFFERENT PROVINCIAL KINGDOMS UNDER THAT 25:54 AND HEROD WAS ONE OF THEM. 25:55 BUT EVERYONE HAD TO FOLLOW THE IMPERIAL LAW OF ROME. 26:00 ALRIGHT, READ FOR ME ACTS 18:15 AND 16, PLEASE. 26:05 >>ACTS 18:15 AND 16, "'BUT IF IT IS A QUESTION OF WORDS AND NAMES 26:11 AND YOUR OWN LAW, LOOK TO IT YOURSELVES; FOR I DO NOT WANT TO 26:17 BE A JUDGE OF SUCH MATTERS.' AND HE DROVE THEM FROM THE 26:20 JUDGMENT SEAT." 26:22 >>ALRIGHT, RIGHT NOW YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE, WHEN THEY WERE IN 26:24 ASIA, PAUL AND SOME OF HIS ASSOCIATES, THEY WERE BROUGHT 26:27 BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES - THE ROMAN MAGISTRATES - UNDER ROMAN 26:31 LAW AND SOME OF THE JEWS AND OTHERS WERE ACCUSING THEM OF 26:35 VIOLATING THEIR CUSTOMS AND THEY SAID, 'LOOK, WHAT YOU DO WITH 26:39 YOUR CUSTOMS IS YOUR BUSINESS. 26:41 I DON'T SIT AS A GOVERNOR OF ROME TO JUDGE THESE MATTERS.' 26:46 YOU KNOW ANOTHER CASE WHERE THAT SAME ISSUE COMES UP? 26:51 IF WE DISFELLOWSHIP SOMEBODY, IN OUR CHURCH - OR ANY DENOMINATION 26:58 - AND THEY GET UPSET AND THEY WANT TO SUE AND THEY GO TO THE 27:03 GOVERNMENT AND THEY WANT TO SUE FOR DAMAGES - BECAUSE PEOPLE 27:07 HAVE TRIED THIS BEFORE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT - 27:09 YOU KNOW WHAT THE COURT SYSTEM SAYS? 27:11 'WE DON'T DEAL WITH ECCLESIASTICAL ISSUES. 27:15 YOU HAVE CHURCH AND YOU HAVE CHURCH LAW AND YOU'RE UPSET 27:18 ABOUT YOUR CHURCH LAW. YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME MEDIATION 27:20 AND APPEAL PROCESS IN YOUR CHURCH, BUT YOU DO NOT BRING 27:23 YOUR ECCLESIASTICAL PROBLEMS TO THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES. 27:26 WE ARE NOT GOING TO JUDGE IN THOSE MATTERS.' I KNOW BECAUSE 27:30 WE'VE HEARD OF PEOPLE, WHO, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY WERE 27:34 DISFELLOWSHIPPED AND THEY THEN WENT TO THE COURTS AND SAID, 'I 27:37 WANT TO SUE AND GET MY BACK TITHE RETURNED TO ME.' AND THEY 27:44 SAID, 'LOOK, WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH THAT STUFF. 27:45 YOU GAVE YOUR MONEY AND YOU GOT YOUR TAX BENEFIT. 27:47 YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT BACK AGAIN.' SO WE EVEN SEE THAT SAME 27:52 DYNAMIC IN OUR CULTURE WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE CIVIL 27:55 LAW AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE ECCLESIASTICAL LAW AND WE HAVE 27:58 CERTAIN RULES AND LAWS. WE HAVE A CHURCH MANUAL IN OUR 28:01 CHURCH AND WE HAVE OUR TRADITIONS. 28:02 WE COME TOGETHER AND SAY, 'THAT VIOLATES THIS RULE. 28:04 THAT VIOLATES THAT RULE.' AND THERE'S PLACES WHERE THEY MAY 28:07 OVERLAP, BUT FOR THE MOST PART THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND 28:10 SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WAS HAPPENING EVEN IN PAUL'S DAY. 28:13 IF YOU LOOK IN ACTS 16, VERSE 37, "BUT PAUL SAID TO THEM, 28:19 'THEY HAVE BEATEN US OPENLY, UNCONDEMNED ROMANS, 28:24 AND HAVE THROWN US INTO PRISON. AND NOW DO THEY PUT US OUT 28:27 SECRETLY? NO INDEED! LET THEM COME THEMSELVES AND GET 28:30 US OUT.'" AND THE OFFICERS TOLD THESE WORDS TO THE MAGISTRATES, 28:33 AND THEY WERE AFRAID WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THEY WERE ROMANS." 28:36 NOW, IN ROME - AND YOU'LL SEE THIS COMES UP TWO OR THREE TIMES 28:40 IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - THE ROMANS HAD A LAW THAT ROMAN CITIZENS 28:45 ACTUALLY HAD DIFFERENT RIGHTS FROM NON-ROMAN CITIZENS - AND 28:50 THERE WAS A THIRD CLASS AND I'M NOT SAYING THIS WAS A GOOD 28:52 THING, I'M JUST SAYING THIS IS HOW IT WAS - 28:54 AND THAT WAS THE SLAVES. YOU COULD BEAT YOUR SLAVE AND 28:58 THE SLAVE COULD NOT GO PROTEST TO THE POLICE AND SAY, 29:01 'I WAS UNFAIRLY BEATEN. NOW, IT WAS BAD FOR YOU IN THE 29:05 COMMUNITY IF YOU TREATED YOUR SLAVES THAT WAY AND, YOU KNOW 29:09 THEY HAD CERTAIN LAWS TO PROTECT THE SLAVES BUT YOU COULDN'T GO - 29:13 IF YOU WERE A SLAVE - BUT IF YOU WERE A ROMAN CITIZEN, THAT WAS 29:15 THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CIVIL CITIZENSHIP. 29:20 IF YOU'RE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO HAVE CERTAIN 29:23 RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THAT MAYBE A VISITING IMMIGRANT MAY NOT 29:25 HAVE. THAT YOU CAN VOTE AND CERTAIN THINGS? 29:29 NOW THAT'S CHANGING ALL THE TIME, BUT IT USED TO BE IT MEANT 29:31 SOMETHING. AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS IN ROME. 29:34 YOU COULD NOT BEAT A ROMAN CITIZEN UNTIL THEY HAD A FAIR 29:38 TRIAL. YOU COULD NOT EVEN BIND THEM 29:41 UNTIL - THEY WERE CONSIDERED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. 29:46 YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF LAWS THAT WE HAVE IN NORTH AMERICA - 29:48 BELIEVE IT OR NOT - COME FROM BOTH THE GRECO-ROMAN CULTURE AND 29:53 EVEN MORE THAN THAT, THE TORAH OR THE JEWISH LAW. 29:57 YOU START LOOKING AT THE LAW OF MOSES AND YOU'D BE AMAZED AT HOW 30:00 MUCH OF OUR MODERN LAW IS ADDRESSED IN THE PRINCIPLES THAT 30:03 GOD GAVE MOSES. YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'VE GOT LIKE 30:06 FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD DEGREE MURDER? 30:08 YOU CAN FIND THAT EVEN IN THE MOSAIC LAW. 30:11 THERE WAS DELIBERATE MURDER AND THERE WAS ACCIDENTAL MURDER - 30:13 WHAT WE CALL MANSLAUGHTER - AND THERE WERE DIFFERENT PROVISIONS 30:16 FOR THAT IN THE LAW. AND YOU CAN SEE ALL KINDS OF 30:19 LAWS OF OUR CURRENT CULTURE THAT EVALUATE MOTIVE AND YOU SEE THAT 30:26 ORIGINATING IN THE MOSAIC LAW. WELL, SOME OF THAT BLEEDS OVER 30:29 FROM ROMAN LAW. I MEAN, DO WE HAVE CONGRESS? 30:31 THE ROMANS HAD A SENATE - AND SO THERE'S SOME OVERLAP. 30:36 SO WHAT HAD HAPPENED IS PAUL AND SILAS HAD BEEN ARRESTED BECAUSE 30:39 OF THEIR PREACHING AND TEACHING - IT WAS HURTING THE BUSINESS OF 30:43 THE IDOL MAKERS BECAUSE THEY SAID IT WAS HURTING THE SALES OF 30:47 THESE STATUES OF DIANA AND THEY WERE THROWN IN JAIL AND THEY 30:52 WERE BEATEN AND IT WAS ALL POLITICALLY DRIVEN BY THE UNIONS 30:55 - BELIEVE IT OR NOT - THERE WAS AN IDOL-MAKING UNION IN EPHESUS 30:59 AND THEY DID ALL THIS AND THEN PAUL AND SILAS ARE PRAYING AT 31:05 NIGHT, THERE'S AN EARTHQUAKE, AND ALL THE PRISONERS' 31:10 DOORS ARE OPENED. THE JAILER IS ABOUT TO KILL 31:12 HIMSELF AND PAUL SAYS 'DO YOURSELF NO HARM, WE'RE ALL 31:15 STILL HERE.' AND HE COMES AND HE FALLS DOWN BEFORE PAUL AND SILAS 31:18 AND HE SAYS, 'WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO BE SAVED? 31:22 YOUR GOD IS SO POWERFUL. I MEAN, YOU PRAYED. 31:23 YOU SANG AFTER WE MISTREATED YOU IN YOUR SHACKLES AND THE STOCKS 31:28 ON YOUR FEET WERE MIRACULOUSLY BROKEN AND OPENED AND TELL ME 31:32 ABOUT YOUR GOD.' AND SO PAUL PREACHES TO HIM. 31:34 THE GUY WASHES THEIR WOUNDS. HE (PAUL) BAPTIZES THEM. 31:36 THE NEXT MORNING THE MAGISTRATES FIND OUT THESE GUYS WERE ROMAN 31:40 AND THEY SAY, 'TELL THEM THEY'RE FREE TO GO.' PAUL SAID, 31:42 'NOT ON YOUR LIFE. YOU ARRESTED US AND YOU BEAT US. 31:45 WE ARE ROMANS. WE WERE UNCONDEMNED. 31:48 YOU COME AND YOU BRING US OUT OF JAIL.' IN OTHER WORDS, 31:53 YOU NEED TO BE SEEN. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO JUST SEND A 31:55 MESSAGE AND SAY, 'YOU'RE FREE TO GO.' AND SO PAUL WAS, 31:58 BASICALLY, CALLING THEM ON THE CARPET. 31:59 HE COULD HAVE PROSECUTED THEM AND IF IT WAS FOUND OUT THAT 32:01 THEY HAD BEATEN ROMANS UNCONDEMNED THEN THEY'D GET IT 32:05 FROM THE GOVERNOR AND THEY CAN LOSE THEIR POSITION. 32:08 SEE HOW - THEY GET IT FROM CAESAR. 32:10 SO YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? THEY'RE NOW AFRAID THAT 32:13 THEY'RE GOING TO GET WRITTEN UP FOR ABUSING THEIR POWER AGAINST 32:15 THE ROMAN CITIZEN AND THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THEIR POSITION. 32:18 SO THE ROMANS WERE PRETTY - PRETTY STRONG ABOUT THEIR LAW. 32:21 ALRIGHT, TAKE A LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, ACTS 22:25, "AND AS 32:27 THEY BOUND HIM WITH THONGS," - NOW THIS IS WHEN PAUL - YOU 32:30 REMEMBER, THERE'S A RUCKUS IN THE TEMPLE. 32:32 PAUL IS FALSELY ACCUSED OF BRINGING GENTILES IN THE TEMPLE. 32:36 THE ROMANS HELPED GUARD THE OUTSIDE OF THE TEMPLE. 32:40 THEY HAD TEMPLE GUARDS ON THE INSIDE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT 32:42 THE ROMAN POLICE INSIDE THE TEMPLE. 32:45 THEY HAD THEIR OWN SECURITY. 32:47 AND WE SEE THAT TODAY, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT HAVE THE POLICE OF AN 32:51 INSTITUTION OUT ON THE STREETS AND YOU MIGHT GO TO AN ARENA AND 32:54 THE ARENA HAS THEIR OWN SECURITY THAT THEY HIRE. AND - 33:00 BECAUSE THEY MAY BE ENFORCING DIFFERENT KINDS OF RULES INSIDE 33:04 - AND SO PAUL WAS ARRESTED IN THE TEMPLE BECAUSE THERE WAS A 33:09 MOB AND THEY WERE TRYING TO TEAR HIM LIMB FROM LIMB. 33:11 THE ROMANS REALIZED THERE WAS A RIOT. THE ROMANS CAME IN 33:13 WITH THEIR SOLDIERS AND THEIR SPEARS AND THEIR SHIELDS. 33:16 THEY RESCUED PAUL BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT ANYONE GETTING 33:19 EXECUTED - SLAVE OR ROMAN - UNTRIED AND THEY FIGURED, 'WE'RE 33:23 GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT CAUSED THIS. WE'RE GOING TO TIE YOU UP 33:25 AND WE'RE GOING TO BEAT YOU.' THEY ACTUALLY WOULD - THEY HAD 33:27 PERMISSION TO INTERROGATE YOU AND THEY DID IT BY FLOGGING YOU 33:30 AND THEY DID IT UNTIL YOU TOLD THEM WHAT WAS GOING ON. 33:32 SO AS THEY BIND PAUL AND THEY'RE READY TO FLOG HIM, PAUL SAYS TO 33:35 THE CENTURION WHO STOOD BY HIM, 'IS IT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO SCOURGE 33:39 A MAN WHO IS A ROMAN UNCONDEMNED?' 33:42 AND WHEN THE CENTURION HEARD THAT, HE WENT AND TOLD THE 33:45 COMMANDER SAYING, 'TAKE HEED WHAT YOU DO. 33:48 THIS MAN IS A ROMAN.' THEN THE COMMANDER CAME TO HIM AND HE 33:51 SAID, 'TELL US, ARE YOU A ROMAN?' 33:54 HE ASSUMED THAT BECAUSE HE SPOKE HEBREW THAT HE WAS JUST A HEBREW 33:56 CITIZEN. HE SAID, 'YES. THE COMMANDER ANSWERED WITH A 33:59 LARGE SUM I OBTAINED THIS CITIZENSHIP.' YOU COULD BUY YOUR 34:03 CITIZENSHIP, BUT IT COST YOU SOMETHING. 34:06 HE SAID, 'WITH A LARGE SUM I OBTAINED THIS CITIZENSHIP.' AND 34:09 PAUL SAID, 'YES, BUT I WAS BORN A CITIZEN.' WHERE WAS PAUL BORN? 34:13 TARSUS. HE WASN'T BORN IN JERUSALEM. 34:16 AND BECAUSE OF HIS FAMILY RELATIONS, PAUL WAS BORN - YOU 34:19 KNOW THAT WHEN SOMEONE IS MAYBE EVEN AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AND 34:24 THEY COME TO THE COUNTRY AND THEY HAVE A BABY IN AMERICA, 34:27 DOES THAT BABY HAVE RIGHTS BECAUSE IT'S BORN IN AMERICA? 34:30 SO, FOR WHATEVER REASON, PAUL WAS BORN IN A ROMAN TERRITORY 34:33 UNDER A PLACE WHERE IF YOU'RE BORN THERE YOU HAD THE ROMAN 34:36 RIGHTS AND HE WAS BORN ROMAN AND THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T CARRY A 34:40 PLASTIC CARD, BUT HE HAD SOME KIND OF CERTIFICATION THAT SAID 34:42 HE WAS REGISTERED AS A ROMAN CITIZEN AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT 34:45 THEY SAID, 'WE WEREN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BIND HIM. 34:48 AND NOW WE'RE GETTING READY TO BEAT HIM. 34:50 "THEN IMMEDIATELY" - VERSE 29 - "THOSE WHO WERE 34:53 ABOUT TO EXAMINE HIM WITHDREW FROM HIM; AND THE COMMANDER WAS 34:57 ALSO AFRAID AFTER HE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A ROMAN, 35:00 AND BECAUSE HE HAD BOUND HIM." 35:02 AND EXAMINED HIM AND THE CHIEF CAPTAIN ALSO WAS AFRAID AFTER HE 35:05 KNEW THAT HE WAS A ROMAN BECAUSE HE HAD BOUND HIM. 35:07 CAN YOU SEE THE FEAR THAT YOU WOULD MISTREAT A ROMAN CITIZEN? 35:12 THIS WAS THE NATURE OF WHAT THE KIND OF LAW THAT WAS IN THE 35:15 WORLD IN THAT DAY WHEN JESUS WAS BORN. 35:18 ALRIGHT, WHO HAS ACTS 23:29? OVER HERE. 35:23 >>ACTS 23:29, "WHOM I PERCEIVED TO BE ACCUSED OF QUESTIONS OF 35:27 THEIR LAW, BUT TO HAVE NOTHING LAID TO HIS CHARGE WORTHY OF 35:32 DEATH OR OF BONDS." 35:34 >>PAUL, DURING THIS TIME WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED IN THE TEMPLE, THEY 35:38 DID END UP SENDING HIM DOWN TO - WHEN PAUL - YOU LEARN A LOT 35:44 ABOUT ROMAN LAW JUST THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING. 35:47 PAUL WAS ARRESTED BECAUSE OF THE RIOT IN THE TEMPLE. 35:50 THEY PUT HIM IN JAIL BUT THEY KEPT HIM FREE. 35:52 THEY HAD LET PEOPLE VISIT HIM. THEY BROUGHT HIM FOOD. 35:55 SO, IN OTHER WORDS, THEY TOOK CARE OF HIM. 35:57 HE WAS GIVEN WHAT YOU WOULD CALL MINIMUM SECURITY HOUSE ARREST. 36:01 BUT HE WAS IN PRISON. THEN 40 JEWS OF THE PHARISEES 36:07 MADE A COVENANT - THEY SAID, 'WE WILL NOT EAT OR DRINK UNTIL WE 36:10 KILL PAUL.' AND THEY HAD THIS PACT AND PAUL HAD A NEPHEW - 36:17 PAUL MUST HAVE HAD A SISTER OR BROTHER BECAUSE HE HAD A NEPHEW. 36:19 HIS NEPHEW CAME AND TOLD THE CENTURION - FIRST HE TOLD PAUL 36:23 AND PAUL SAID 'YOU NEED TO' - TOLD HIS NEPHEW - 'YOU NEED TO 36:25 GO TELL THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD.' HE TOLD THE CAPTAIN OF 36:28 THE GUARD, 'THERE'S SOME JEWS THAT, WHEN YOU TAKE PAUL TO BE 36:31 TRIED, THEY'RE GOING TO JUMP HIM AND KILL HIM BECAUSE THEY'VE 36:34 MADE THIS COVENANT.' HE SAID, 'THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME. 36:36 DON'T TELL ANYONE YOU TOLD ME THIS.' THEN THEY, AT NIGHT, GOT 36:39 200 SOLDIERS ARMED AND THEY TRANSPORTED PAUL FROM JERUSALEM, 36:44 WHERE IT WAS A LOT MORE DANGEROUS, DOWN TO CAESAREA 36:48 WHERE THERE WAS A LOT MORE ROMAN INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT AND - TO 36:52 PROTECT HIM THERE - BIGGER FORTRESS AS WELL. 36:55 LOOK AT ALL THE TROUBLE THAT THE ROMANS WENT THROUGH TO GUARD ONE 36:59 ROMAN CITIZEN. I MEAN, YOU MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT 37:02 THEY WOULD HAVE JUST SAID, 'WELL, THROW HIM TO THEM. 37:05 LET THEM DO WHAT THEY WANT.' BUT BECAUSE HE WAS A ROMAN CITIZEN 37:08 THEY WENT TO GREAT EXPENSE TO PROTECT HIM. 37:11 AND SO, JUST GIVING YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND OF WHAT WAS GOING ON 37:14 WITH THE ROMAN LAW, THEY WERE VERY STRONG IN KEEPING IT. 37:18 SOME OF WHAT THEY DID AND THE WAY THEY PUNISHED PEOPLE WAS - 37:21 SEEMED BRUTAL, BUT IF YOU WERE A ROMAN CITIZEN - NOW KEEP THAT IN 37:24 MIND BECAUSE LATER IN THE BIBLE YOU'RE GOING TO READ ABOUT THE 37:27 CITIZENSHIP OF CHRIST AND PAUL IS USING THAT MIND SET WHEN HE'S 37:33 SHARING THOSE THINGS. OKAY, MOSAIC LAW AND CIVIC LAW - 37:37 OR THE - YEAH, THE MOSAIC LAW OF THE CIVIC NATURE. 37:41 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP MATTHEW - SOMEONE HAS MATTHEW 26:59 37:45 THROUGH 60 - WHO HAS THAT? DID ANYONE - RIGHT UP HERE? 37:49 MANJEET, HOLD YOUR HAND UP. I DON'T KNOW IF HE SAW YOU. 37:51 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 37:54 AND I'M GOING TO READ JOHN 11:47, "THEN GATHERED THE CHIEF 37:59 PRIESTS AND THE PHARISEES A COUNCIL, AND SAID, 'WHAT DO WE? 38:03 FOR THIS MAN DOETH MANY MIRACLES.'" YOU'LL OFTEN HEAR 38:06 ABOUT THE SADDUCEES AND THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES - THEY HAD 38:10 A COUNCIL AND THE COUNCIL CALLED THE SANHEDRIN - OR SANHEDRIN - 38:15 CONSISTED OF 71 MEN THAT WERE SELECTED FROM AMONG THE PRIESTS, 38:20 THE ELDERS, AND RABBIS AND THEY PRESIDED OVER - THEY WERE 38:24 PRESIDED OVER BY THE HIGH PRIEST - IT SERVED AS THE 38:27 JERUSALEM EQUIVALENT OF THE SUPREME COURT. 38:31 AND WHEN - THERE WAS NO HIGHER APPEAL COURT THAN THE SANHEDRIN 38:35 AND THEY CAME TOGETHER IN THEIR COUNCIL - THEY'RE THE ONES WHO, 38:38 ULTIMATELY, CONDEMNED JESUS TO CRUCIFIXION - AND THEN HANDED 38:43 HIM OVER TO THE ROMANS FOR CRUCIFIXION. 38:45 SO THEY GATHERED TOGETHER AND SAID, 'WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO 38:48 FOR THIS MAN DOES MANY MIRACLES?' 38:50 SO THIS IS NOW THE CIVIL LAW. THEY ARE WITHIN THE ROMAN LAW. 38:55 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US - GO AHEAD - MATTHEW 26:59, PLEASE. 38:59 >>"NOW THE CHIEF PRIESTS, THE ELDERS, AND ALL THE COUNCIL, 39:04 SOUGHT FALSE TESTIMONY AGAINST JESUS, TO PUT HIM TO DEATH, 39:09 BUT FOUND NONE." 39:11 >>NOW, AT THE TRIAL OF JESUS - BECAUSE IT HAPPENED AT NIGHT - 39:14 NORMALLY THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO MEET AT NIGHT, 39:16 IT WAS ILLEGAL. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET DURING THE DAY, 39:19 BUT THEY CALLED A SPECIAL EMERGENCY COUNCIL AT NIGHT. 39:23 SOMETIMES SOME QUESTIONABLE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED UNDER THE 39:28 PRETENSE OF EMERGENCY SESSIONS, BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY ALWAYS 39:32 GETS THE WORD AND THINGS CAN BE RAILROADED IN THOSE SESSIONS AND 39:37 SO THEY HAD THIS EMERGENCY MEETING AND IT WAS, 39:41 AGAIN, THE SANHEDRIN. THEY CAME TOGETHER. 39:42 THEY WERE THE ONES WHO WERE GOVERNING THE JEWISH LAW. 39:45 ACTS 5:27 - YOU SEE THIS AGAIN IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - "AND WHEN 39:48 THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM, THEY SET THEM BEFORE THE COUNCIL. 39:51 AND THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED THEM," - THIS IS WHEN THE APOSTLES WERE 39:54 BROUGHT IN AND THEY BEGAN TO ASK THEM ABOUT 'WHY ARE YOU TEACHING 39:57 IN THE NAME OF JESUS?' SO THEY'RE BEING TRIED BY THE 40:00 SUPREME COURT COUNCIL. NOW, THERE WAS ONE TIME, 40:03 TYPICALLY, WHEN THE SANHEDRIN - SOMETIMES I'VE HEARD IT 40:08 PRONOUNCED SANHEDRIN - WHEN THEY WANT TO TRY SOMEBODY THEY COULD 40:13 TRY A PERSON. THEY COULD THEN EVEN TEMPORARILY 40:16 IMPRISON A PERSON. THEY COULD WHIP A PERSON. 40:19 THEY COULD NOT EXECUTE A PERSON WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE 40:22 ROMANS. YOU COULD NOT IMPLEMENT THE DEATH DECREE. 40:26 AND THERE ARE CERTAIN LAWS THAT STATES ENFORCE AND THEN THERE 40:30 ARE CERTAIN LAWS THAT ARE FEDERALLY ENFORCED. 40:33 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME LAWS THAT STATES WILL NOT 40:36 ENFORCE BUT THEY'RE FEDERAL LAWS. 40:38 AMERICA, RIGHT NOW, IS BIPOLAR WHEN IT COMES TO MARIJUANA. 40:42 DID YOU KNOW THAT? WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS FEDERALLY 40:49 IT IS AGAINST THE LAW. JUST - THIS IS NOT A SECRET. 40:52 YOU KNOW, YOU GO UP TO WHAT THEY CALL THE EMERALD TRIANGLE, WHICH 40:56 IS HUMBOLT COUNTY, TRINITY COUNTY, AND MENDOCINO COUNTY, 41:00 WHERE WE'VE HAD SOME PROPERTY FOR 35 YEARS. 41:04 IT IS THE MARIJUANA CAPITAL OF NORTH AMERICA. 41:07 THEY CALL IT THE EMERALD TRIANGLE. 41:09 AND WHEN WE FLY, EVERY NOW AND THEN I'LL BRING A GUEST AND 41:12 WE'LL FLY OUR LITTLE PLANE UP TO COVELO AND IF YOU GO IN THE FALL 41:15 YOU JUST LOOK OUT THE WINDOW - I SAY, 'I JUST WANT YOU SEE 41:17 SOMETHING. LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW.' I SAY, 41:19 'YOU SEE ALL THOSE GREEN, DARK CIRCLES IN EVERYBODY'S 41:23 BACKYARD?' IT'S VERY TELLING TOO, BECAUSE I 41:28 KNOW WHERE SOME PEOPLE LIVE FROM THE AIR. 41:31 FOLKS THAT YOU WOULD THINK WOULD BE UPSTANDING CITIZENS - 41:34 CHRISTIANS - AND YOU SEE ALL THOSE DARK GREEN CIRCLES IN 41:38 THEIR BACKYARD. THEY SAY IT'S MEDICAL. 41:44 AND FEDERAL LAW DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO BECAUSE IT'S AGAINST 41:48 THE LAW FEDERALLY BUT THE STATE LAW, THEY'RE BASICALLY WINKING 41:51 AT IT. AND WHAT DO YOU DO WHERE YOU'VE GOT SOMEWHERE LIKE 41:54 COLORADO, WHERE THE STATE LAW NOW CONTRADICTS THE FEDERAL LAW? 42:00 AND SO, JUST, AGAIN, I TOLD YOU, LAW GETS CONFUSING. 42:03 SO WHAT THEY WOULD DO SOMETIMES IS THEY WOULD PRE-EMPT - THEY 42:08 WOULD NOT TAKE AN EXECUTION TO THE STATE AUTHORITIES. 42:12 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY BROUGHT MARY IN - 42:13 THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY? 42:15 I SOMETIMES THINK THAT MAY HAVE BEEN MARY MAGDALENE - I CAN'T 42:17 PROVE IT BUT YOU CAN'T PROVE IT WASN'T. 42:19 SO THEY CATCH THIS WOMAN IN ADULTERY - IN THE TEMPLE - JOHN 42:21 CHAPTER 8, AND THEY SAID, 'MOSES AND THE LAW SAY SUCH SHOULD BE 42:24 STONED, BUT WHAT DO YOU SAY?' THEY WERE READY TO STONE HER. 42:27 DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE STONED 42:29 HER, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE RUN TO THE 42:31 ROMANS AND SAID, 'JESUS PRONOUNCED THE DEATH SENTENCE ON 42:34 SOMEBODY.' JESUS WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. 42:37 THE PROBLEM WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ROMAN'S AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 42:40 IN TROUBLE. THEY KNEW THEY COULDN'T DO THAT. 42:42 THAT'S WHY THE HAD TO TAKE JESUS TO PILATE. 42:44 SO, IN A BIG PUBLIC FIGURE LIKE THAT, THE ROMANS KNEW THEY 42:47 COULDN'T' DO IT. BUT WITH STEPHEN - YOU REMEMBER, 42:50 WITH STEPHEN THEY WERE SO OUTRAGED THEY GRIT THEIR TEETH, 42:55 THEY SHOUTED, THEY RAN AFTER HIM, THEY BROUGHT HIM OUT, 42:59 THEY EXECUTED HIM. THEY DIDN'T GO TO THE ROMANS. 43:01 PAUL WAS GIVEN PERMISSION BY THE COUNCIL - THE SANHEDRIN - TO 43:07 ARREST CHRISTIANS AND TO IMPRISON THEM AND SOME WERE 43:11 EXECUTED. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? AND SO THEY WERE OVERSTEPPING 43:15 THEIR AUTHORITY WHEN THEY WERE DOING THAT. 43:18 HE ONLY HAD REALLY PERMISSION - LEGALLY HE HAD LETTERS TO HAVE 43:21 THEM PUT IN JAIL, BUT HE TELLS LATER IN HIS TESTIMONY, SOME 43:24 WERE KILLED. AND SO THAT WAS GOING BEYOND THE 43:27 ROMAN LAW. SO YOU HAD THE CIVIC LAW THERE. 43:31 HEBREWS 10:28, "ANYONE WHO HAS REJECTED MOSES' LAW DIES WITHOUT 43:36 MERCY ON THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES." 43:39 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT VIOLATION OF 43:41 THOSE LAWS - THE PENALTY WAS DEATH. 43:44 AND SO, THAT WAS PRETTY SEVERE. AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU STOLE 43:50 SOMETHING, WAS THE PENALTY DEATH? WAS IT? 43:55 COME ON, YOU CAN TALK TO ME. NO. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PAY BACK 43:59 FOUR-FOLD. YOU REMEMBER WHAT NICODEMUS SAID 44:03 - I'M SORRY - ZACCHEUS SAID WHEN HE CAME TO JESUS? 44:05 'IF I'VE TAKEN ANYTHING FROM ANY MAN BY FALSE ACCUSATION, I PAY 44:08 HIM BACK FOUR-FOLD.' HE KNEW WHAT THE MOSAIC LAW SAID ABOUT 44:12 THAT. AND WHEN DAVID WAS CONFRONTED 44:15 WITH THE STORY, NATHAN SAID, 'THERE'S THIS MAN THAT TOOK HIS 44:19 POOR NEIGHBOR'S SHEEP AND KILLED IT WHEN HE HAD FLOCKS FULL OF 44:23 SHEEP.' NATHAN MADE UP THIS STORY AND TOLD DAVID. 44:25 AND YOU KNOW WHAT DAVID SAID? 'THAT MAN WILL PAY FOUR-FOLD.' 44:28 WHY DID HE SAY THAT? THAT WAS PART OF THE MOSAIC LAW, 44:31 THAT IF YOU STOLE SOMETHING AND IT WAS FOUND WITH YOU, YOU WERE 44:34 TO PAY BACK FOUR TIMES. THAT WASN'T THE ROMAN LAW. 44:38 ALRIGHT, NOW TO THE MOSAIC LAW OR THE CEREMONIAL PART OF THE 44:43 MOSAIC LAW. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 44:45 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19. WHO GOT THAT ONE? 44:50 HOLD YOUR HAND UP. OVER HERE. 44:52 ALRIGHT WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. YOU'LL BE NEXT. 44:55 LET ME READ LEVITICUS 2, VERSES 14 THROUGH 16, "IF YOU OFFER A 45:01 GRAIN OFFERING OF YOUR FIRSTFRUITS TO THE LORD, YOU 45:05 SHALL OFFER FOR THE GRAIN OFFERING OF YOUR FIRSTFRUITS 45:07 GREEN HEADS OF GRAIN ROASTED ON THE FIRE, GRAIN BEATEN FROM FULL 45:11 HEADS. AND YOU SHALL PUT OIL ON IT, AND 45:13 LAY FRANKINCENSE ON IT. IT IS A GRAIN OFFERING. 45:16 THEN THE PRIEST SHALL BURN THE MEMORIAL PORTION: PART OF ITS 45:19 BEATEN GRAIN AND PART OF ITS OIL, WITH ALL THE FRANKINCENSE, 45:22 AS AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE TO THE LORD." 45:25 AS WE READ ON, WE FIND THAT THEY HAD OFFERINGS THAT WERE TO BE 45:28 MADE OF THE VINE, WHERE THEY WOULD POUR OUT WINE BEFORE THE 45:32 LORD. THEY HAD OFFERINGS THAT WERE 45:33 MADE OF THE FIELD. THEY HAD OFFERINGS THAT WERE 45:36 MADE OF THE LIVESTOCK. AND SO THEY WOULD SHOW THAT ALL 45:39 THE BOUNTY AND THE BLESSING BELONGED TO THE LORD. 45:41 SO THESE OFFERINGS WERE SYMBOLIC. 45:44 THERE WERE LAWS REGARDING THESE CEREMONIES THAT WERE A SYMBOL. 45:49 WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? 45:55 STAND. WHERE'S THAT WRITTEN? 45:59 DO YOU GET ARRESTED IF YOU DON'T? IS IT - ARE YOU SUPPOSED 46:04 TO PUT YOUR HAND OVER YOUR HEART OR IF YOU'RE MILITARY YOU 46:06 SALUTE? I WENT TO MILITARY SCHOOL - YEAH. 46:10 BUT IT'S SOMETHING OF A CEREMONIAL LAW THAT WE HAVE IN 46:13 OUR COUNTRY. IT'S TERRIBLY FROWNED UPON. 46:17 I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY ARRESTED FOR SITTING. 46:19 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A LOT OF SCORNFUL LOOKS AND BE THOUGHT TO 46:23 BE A TRAITOR, BUT THIS IS A CEREMONIAL LAW, RIGHT? 46:28 SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 46:29 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19. 46:33 >>1 CORINTHIANS 7:19, "CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING AND 46:37 UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD 46:41 IS WHAT MATTERS." 46:43 >>THAT'S A VERSE YOU OUGHT TO REMEMBER AND YOU SHOULD PROBABLY 46:46 UNDERLINE THAT IF YOU UNDERLINE IN YOUR BIBLE. 46:49 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE TELL US THAT WHEN JESUS 46:53 DIED THAT THE COMMANDMENTS WERE DONE AWAY WITH - THAT THEY WERE 46:57 NAILED TO THE CROSS. IT TELLS US THAT CERTAIN LAWS 47:01 WERE NAILED TO THE CROSS. WHAT LAWS ARE NO LONGER AN 47:05 OBLIGATION ON CHRISTIANS? CEREMONIAL LAWS. 47:10 THE CEREMONIAL LAWS - DID THEY COME BEFORE SIN OR AFTER SIN? 47:16 AFTER SIN. CIRCUMCISION - DID IT COME 47:19 BEFORE SIN OR AFTER SIN? IT WAS A COVENANT - WAS IT GIVEN 47:22 TO ALL PEOPLE OR TO A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE? 47:26 CIRCUMCISION WAS GIVEN TO ABRAHAM AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 47:28 RIGHT? IT - GOD DIDN'T SAY THAT ONLY 47:31 PEOPLE WHO ARE CIRCUMCISED ARE GOING TO GO TO HEAVEN. 47:35 DID GOD HAVE PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES THAT WORSHIPED HIM? 47:40 I DON'T WANT TO GET TOO GRAPHIC HERE, BUT ABRAHAM, NOAH, 47:44 METHUSELAH, ENOCH, WERE THEY CIRCUMCISED? WERE THEY? 47:50 SO IS IT A REQUIREMENT FOR SALVATION? NO. 47:53 IT WAS A CEREMONIAL LAW. THAT'S WHY PAUL SAID, 47:56 'CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING. UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING. 47:59 WHAT MATTERS IS KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS.' SO YOU SEE, 48:02 THERE'S A DISTINCTION THERE BETWEEN THE TWO - BETWEEN THE 48:04 CEREMONIAL LAW AND THE MORAL LAW. 48:08 ALRIGHT, IF YOU LOOK IN LEVITICUS 5:11, FOR INSTANCE, 48:12 "BUT IF HE IS NOT ABLE TO BRING TWO TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG 48:15 PIGEONS, THEN HE WHO SINNED SHALL BRING FOR HIS OFFERING 48:17 ONE-TENTH OF AN EPHAH OF FINE FLOUR AS A SIN OFFERING. 48:20 HE SHALL PUT NO OIL ON IT, NOR SHALL HE PUT FRANKINCENSE ON 48:23 IT, FOR IT IS A SIN OFFERING." 48:25 HERE AGAIN, IT'S GOING INTO SOME OF THE CEREMONIAL LAWS AND THESE 48:30 THINGS WERE PRESCRIBED ABOUT HOW TO MAKE THEIR OFFERINGS. 48:34 IF YOU JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 48:37 HEBREWS 9 - BEFORE I READ THAT, WHO HAS DEUTERONOMY 4, VERSES 13 48:42 AND 14? DID WE GIVE THAT TO SOMEBODY? 48:47 DEUTERONOMY 4:13-14 - DO YOU HAVE THAT SYLVIA? 48:49 ALRIGHT, LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 48:51 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO HE CAN SEE YOU. 48:53 ALRIGHT - AND I'M GOING TO READ HEBREWS 9:9-12, "IT WAS SYMBOLIC 49:01 FOR THE PRESENT TIME IN WHICH BOTH GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE 49:04 OFFERED WHICH CANNOT MAKE HIM WHO PERFORMED THE SERVICE 49:07 PERFECT IN REGARD TO THE CONSCIENCE - CONCERNED ONLY WITH 49:10 FOODS AND DRINKS, VARIOUS WASHINGS, AND FLESHLY ORDINANCES 49:13 IMPOSED UNTIL THE TIME OF REFORMATION. 49:16 BUT CHRIST CAME AS HIGH PRIEST OF THE GOOD THINGS TO COME, WITH 49:20 THE GREATER AND MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, 49:24 THAT IS, NOT OF THIS CREATION. NOT WITH THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND 49:27 CALVES, BUT WITH HIS OWN BLOOD HE ENTERED THE MOST HOLY PLACE 49:30 ONCE FOR ALL, HAVING OBTAINED ETERNAL REDEMPTION." 49:34 BY THE WAY, IT SAYS 'MOST HOLY PLACE' IN THE NEW KING JAMES - A 49:38 LOT OF VERSIONS SAY 'HOLY PLACE' - IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT 49:40 HAGION, IS THE WORD THERE - IT'S AN INTERESTING STUDY ON 49:44 THAT I WON'T GO INTO, BUT POINT BEING WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THAT 49:47 WAS SYMBOLIC. DID YOU CATCH THAT? 49:51 VERSE 9, IT WAS SYMBOLIC FOR THE PRESENT TIME. 49:54 THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WERE WHAT? SYMBOLIC. 49:59 THE PASSOVER WAS WHAT? SYMBOLIC. 50:02 OF WHAT? OF JESUS, THE PASSOVER LAMB. 50:05 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'NOW CHRIST IS OUR PASSOVER.' 50:08 THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. 50:09 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED PEOPLE THAT SAY IT IS MANDATORY 50:15 FOR MODERN 21ST CENTURY CHRISTIANS TO BE KEEPING THE 50:19 JEWISH FEAST DAYS? HAVE YOU RUN INTO THAT BEFORE? 50:21 LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS. YEAH, I HAVE. 50:25 WE GET CALLS PERIODICALLY AND PEOPLE FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT 50:29 WE SHOULD BE KEEPING THE FEAST DAYS. 50:31 BUT I RESPECTFULLY AND FIRMLY DISAGREE WITH THAT. 50:34 I THINK THAT WHEN THE HIGH PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS AT THE 50:39 TRIAL OF CHRIST - WHEN THE VEIL WAS RIPPED IN THE TEMPLE AT THE 50:43 CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST - IT WAS SHOWING US THAT THERE'S A 50:46 DIFFERENT PRIESTHOOD AND THERE'S A DIFFERENT TEMPLE. 50:49 WE NOW BECOME A SPIRITUAL NATION OF PRIESTS. 50:52 YOU NOW ARE A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. 50:54 YOU ARE LIVING STONES IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, RIGHT? 50:58 WE DON'T SACRIFICE LAMBS ANYMORE AS JESUS' BODY WAS TORN, THE 51:02 PRIEST'S ROBES WERE TORN, THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN, THE 51:06 BODY OF CHRIST WAS TORN SYMBOLIZING NOW IT'S NOT EARTHLY 51:10 LAMBS, IT'S JESUS THE LAMB OF GOD. 51:13 SO THE IDEA THAT THESE SYMBOLS - THAT YOU WOULD GO TO THE SYMBOL 51:17 WHEN YOU HAVE THE REALITY - I TRY AND EXPLAIN IT LIKE THIS: IF 51:22 YOU'VE GOT A BELOVED SON OR DAUGHTER THAT IS OVERSEAS - ON A 51:26 MISSION TRIP OR IN THE MILITARY - WHATEVER IT IS - AND YOU MISS 51:28 THEM AND YOU PUT THEIR PICTURE UP ON THE COUNTER AND BECAUSE 51:33 YOU MISS THEM AND YOU'RE SENTIMENTAL, YOU PICK IT UP AND 51:35 YOU KISS IT ONCE A DAY, IT'S A SYMBOL OF YOUR LOVE FOR THEM. 51:40 IT'S NOT IDOLATRY, YOU'RE JUST THINKING OF THEM. 51:42 BUT THEN THEY KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR BECAUSE THEY CAME HOME AND YOU 51:46 FLING THE DOOR OPEN AND YOU LOOK AT THEM AND YOU SAY, 'MY SON, MY 51:49 DAUGHTER!' AND YOU RUN OVER TO THE TABLE, YOU PICK UP THE 51:51 PICTURE, AND YOU KISS THE PICTURE. DOES THAT SEEM RIGHT? 51:56 SO FOR YOU TO BE EMBRACING THE SYMBOL WHEN THE REALITY IS IN 51:59 FRONT OF YOU, IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 52:02 FOR US TO BE KEEPING THE CEREMONIAL LAWS WHEN THE REALITY 52:06 OF WHAT IT ALL POINTS TO IS NOW THERE - AND, BY THE WAY, IT'S 52:08 NOT POSSIBLE FOR MOST OF US TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND KEEP THOSE 52:11 FEASTS THE WAY WE'RE COMMANDED TO KEEP THEM. 52:13 THE TEMPLE'S NOT THERE BECAUSE - ALL OF THOSE FEASTS WERE 52:16 CONNECTED WITH SACRIFICES IN THE TEMPLE. 52:19 ARE THERE THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM STUDYING THE FEASTS? YEAH. 52:22 AND IF A PERSON WANTS TO GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF 52:25 REMEMBERING ONE OF THE FEASTS, THAT'S UP TO YOU. 52:28 I MEAN, IF MAN'S GOING TO REGARD THE DAY, REGARD THE DAY TO THE 52:31 LORD BUT DON'T REQUIRE OTHERS TO. 52:34 THAT'S WHAT ROMANS 14 IS TALKING ABOUT. 52:36 IF YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP A DAY, KEEP A DAY TO THE LORD. 52:37 IF YOU WANT TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS. 52:40 DON'T TELL OTHER PEOPLE THEY HAVE TO. 52:42 IF YOU'RE GOING TO REMEMBER THE BIRTH OF JESUS ON THAT DAY - BUT 52:45 IT'S NOT A LAW THAT WE HAVE TO, IS IT? 52:47 AND SO, THIS IS WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. 52:49 SO WE'VE GOT ONE MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT THE MORAL LAW. 52:53 I KNEW THAT - I KNEW THAT. A LOT OF OTHER LESSONS COVER 52:58 THIS SO WE'LL BE GETTING TO THAT. ALRIGHT, THE MORAL LAW. 53:04 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE A DISTINCTION HERE. 53:06 WHO HAS DEUTERONOMY 4? DID I GIVE THAT TO SOMEBODY? 53:09 SYLVIA - YOU GO AHEAD. I WANT YOU TO READ THAT. 53:12 >>DEUTERONOMY 4:13-14, "SO HE DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT 53:17 WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS; 53:20 AND HE WROTE THEM ON TWO TABLETS OF STONE. 53:23 AND THE LORD COMMANDED ME AT THAT TIME TO TEACH YOU STATUTES 53:26 AND JUDGMENTS, THAT YOU MIGHT OBSERVE THEM IN THE LAND WHICH 53:29 YOU CROSS OVER TO POSSESS." 53:31 >>ALRIGHT, IF WE'RE - THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO SUMMARIZE. 53:35 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MORAL 53:39 LAW AND THE CEREMONIAL LAW? I GOT A PHONE CALL AT OUR BIBLE 53:44 ANSWER PROGRAM LAST WEEK AND SOMEONE SAID, 'THERE'S NO 53:47 DISTINCTION ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE. 53:48 THERE'S ONLY ONE LAW.' I SAID, 'I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. 53:51 THE BIBLE MAKES VERY CLEAR DISTINCTIONS IN SEVERAL PLACES.' 53:53 HERE'S ONE - YOU NOTICE WHEN IT SAYS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - 'HE 53:56 DECLARED TO YOU HIS COVENANT HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM THE TEN 53:59 COMMANDMENTS.' THERE'S A CONCISE NUMBER - TEN COMMANDMENTS - 54:02 'AND' - IT SAYS - 'THE LORD COMMANDED ME' - AT THAT TIME 54:07 MOSES IS SPEAKING - 'TO TEACH YOU STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS THAT 54:09 YOU MIGHT OBSERVE THEM IN THE LAND YOU CROSS OVER TO POSSESS.' 54:12 AND IN THERE WERE CEREMONIAL LAWS AND THERE WERE HEALTH LAWS 54:15 AND THERE WERE CIVIL LAWS AND SOME OF THE LAWS THAT HAD TO DO 54:19 WITH FAMILY AND INHERITANCE AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER LAWS. 54:23 BUT GOD MADE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS A VERY CLEAR, 54:25 DISTINCT LAW. HE SPOKE IT WITH HIS VOICE. 54:29 HE WROTE IT WITH HIS FINGER. IT WAS DIFFERENT IN THE DELIVERY 54:32 OF THE LAW, DIFFERENT IN WHAT HE WROTE IT ON, DIFFERENT IN WHAT 54:35 IT WAS WRITTEN WITH, DIFFERENT IN WHERE IT WAS PLACED - IN THE 54:39 MIDDLE OF THE ARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TEMPLE. 54:41 SO GOD MADE A DISTINCTION, WE SHOULD RECOGNIZE THERE'S A 54:44 DISTINCTION, RIGHT? BETWEEN THE MORAL TEN 54:46 COMMANDMENT LAW AND SOME OF THESE OTHER MANY LAWS THE RABBIS 54:50 HAD COME UP WITH - ABOUT 613 - WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 54:53 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER I WANT TO REMIND YOU ABOUT. 54:55 IT'S CALLED 'WRITTEN IN STONE'. IT'S A FREE LESSON BY 54:59 AMAZING FACTS. I LIKE IT ALSO BECAUSE IT'S 55:01 FULLY ILLUSTRATED - BEAUTIFUL PICTURES INSIDE. 55:04 AS I TOLD YOU BEFORE, I PROBABLY NEVER WOULD HAVE LEARNED TO READ 55:08 IF IT WASN'T FOR COMIC BOOKS, SO EVERYONE WILL ENJOY THIS - 55:12 CHILDREN WILL ENJOY THIS AND ADULTS. 55:13 IT'S A GREAT STUDY ON THE LAW OF GOD. 55:15 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 55:17 JUST CALL 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #111. 55:22 GOD BLESS YOU FRIENDS, UNTIL WE STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT TIME. 55:27 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION! 55:40 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS 55:45 AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE 55:49 SECOND COMING OF JESUS. IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT 55:55 CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND, ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL 55:59 THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 56:05 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 56:09 PROPHET. THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 56:24 >>TODAY WE ARE SHOOTING MULTIPLE SCENES. 56:26 A LOT OF PROPS ARE GOING TO BE IN PLAY. 56:28 NOW RIGHT OVER HERE WE HAVE A DOOR THAT LUTHER WILL BE NAILING 56:33 HIS 95 THESES INTO. AS YOU CAN TELL, IT'S NOT THE WHOLE DOOR. 56:36 IN FILM, YOU JUST CUT DOWN TO WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AND SO 56:39 THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE. AND THEN OVER HERE WE'VE GOT 56:43 THESE SHIELDS COMING TOGETHER. WE'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING IN 56:46 SOME TEXTURE AND PAINTING THESE RED. 56:47 WE'RE LIGHTING, RIGHT NOW, THE EUCHARIST AND SO WE'RE GOING TO 56:50 GO SCENE BY SCENE - A LITTLE PIECE BY PIECE OF WHAT THE 56:53 ACTUAL CHALICE, THE BREAD, THE WINE. 56:56 AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'RE GOING TO FLY IN THE GOBLET THAT THE 56:59 WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS HOLDING. 57:01 SHE'S DRINKING BLOOD AND WE'LL HAVE THE BLOOD DRIPPING DOWN. 57:03 WHEN PUTTING TOGETHER A FILM YOU HAVE TONS OF PRACTICALS AND 57:07 PROPS THAT ARE ON YOUR SET AND YOU'VE GOT TO DO THE RESEARCH. 57:11 YOU'VE GOT TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS USED DURING THAT TIME. 57:13 JOHN WAS WRITING ON PATMOS AND EVERYBODY THINKS HE WAS USING A 57:16 SCROLL WITH INK, BUT HE WAS ACTUALLY - HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 57:19 USING A LEAD STYLUS. WE TRY TO PUT THOSE REAL 57:22 ELEMENTS IN THERE WITHOUT CAUSING ANY DISTRACTION TO THE 57:25 AUDIENCE WHERE THEY'D BE LIKE, 'NO! 57:27 THAT'S NOT WHAT WAS USED.' THEN YOU HAVE, LIKE THE REFORMATION 57:30 PERIODS, THE RENAISSANCE ERA AND THE DARK AGES - ALL THOSE 57:33 DETAILS - FROM THE TYPES OF CANDLES THEY WERE USING OR 57:38 POSSIBLY THE TYPES OF PARCHMENT THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN 57:41 WRITING ON. WE HAD TO RECREATE THAT KIND OF STUFF. 57:45 >>WE LEARNED, AS WE INTERVIEWED THE HISTORIANS - BECAUSE THEY'VE 57:48 REALLY RESEARCHED A LOT OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY AND MOST OF US 57:52 HAVE LAYMEN'S KNOWLEDGE OF THESE THINGS. 57:54 IT REALLY ADDED A LOT OF VALUABLE INSIGHTS TO THE PICTURE 57:59 THAT KIND OF GAVE IT DETAIL AND COLOR AND BROUGHT IT TO LIFE. 58:14 (MUSIC) |
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